Yeah that is my least favourite option; I hate splitting ice time. What is the benefit? We are not even remotely close to competing, why does Savard need to be in the lineup every game over one of the four prospects? Even giving the vets all those spots we had horrible goals against last year. Eddy and Savard had two of the worst GA/GF ratios. They were also completely ineffective on the PK as the primary pairing.
I dunno, the series of events that led to all this happening is honestly pretty contrived and hard to realistically foresee. He's got 15 slots and if he had the other 6 Canadian teams plus the west coast teams on it, that's already 12 or 13 spots taken. I think it probably made sense to leave the Habs off the no trade list. With 15 slots you can't protect against every negative outcome and I think it was reasonable to expect there was an extremely low chance of Montreal reacquiring him, and that if they did it would be to flip in this way anyway.
Didn't Friedman post that he spoke to Petry and he understood Petry hadn't listed Montreal because he hadn't expected we'd trade for him. That tweet alone was enough to lower his value.
Most of which are of the dartboard variety. I guess the good news is we can move some of them in an attempt to bring up the value of our redundant players of which we have a handful. Offer 2/3 of them to Arizona with Gallagher as is.
I think when a kid is learning the game it can be beneficial to rest here and there and watch the game from above. A kid wont progress less because he plays 65-70 games instead of 82. They play less games in Europe and their kids develop very well over time there. They'll likely just waive Wideman he's not worth anything anyway and could be claimed considering he is paid league's minimum.
No point really. Habs can afford to keep him for another year and then with one year left on his deal you can afford to flip him plus let's say a 4th for future considerations
I just think that it would be more beneficial for the young guys to build chemistry playing with each other instead of with Savard who is not going to be here a year later. This is the year where we can experiment and see who gels with who. Who knows though. No point in getting myself worked up before the season even starts.
Another way to view this is
He and his agent probably thought no way i'm being traded back to Montreal after asking for a trade out of there. That's what i would have thought if i was him.
KH is just making sure the east improve even more
Pens and De are now slightly better. Better pick in 2024.
Unless a team grossly overpay for Dvorak he wont be moved until the deadline of his last contract year.
